Redesigning the Definition a Truth Commission, but Also Designing a Forward-Looking Non-Prescriptive Definition to Make Them Potentially More Successful

Sarkin, Jeremy

doi:10.1007/s12142-018-0509-3

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“…A third and related critique has been that TJ scholars and practitioners have been too concerned with the backward-looking function of punishing (mostly individual) perpetrators rather than being genuinely forward-looking (Sarkin, 2018). Early hopes that backward-looking trials and truth commissions would give rise to robust, inclusive democracies have not been fulfilled (Roht-Arriaza, 2016: 1).…”

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Understanding the Unforeseen Consequences of an Incomplete Transitional Justice Ecology in the Philippines

Destrooper

2023

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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The Philippines is not typically the focus of transitional justice (TJ) scholarship. Yet, it has had to deal with violent legacies pertaining to each generation of TJ and has installed several TJ initiatives in response to this. This has given rise to a densely populated TJ landscape, spanning different periods and regions and including both formal and informal initiatives within various TJ pillars. In spite of this plethora of initiatives, the Philippines can hardly be called a ‘successful’ case of dealing with violent legacies – with the recent election of Bongbong Marcos as the most striking example thereof. In this article I argue that this can be understood in light of the absence of a genuine TJ ecology: there has not been an encompassing approach in which various kinds of initiatives interact with each other based on intersecting normative objectives. I argue that the case of the Philippines holds broader lessons regarding the importance of a more ecological understanding of TJ.

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Understanding the Unforeseen Consequences of an Incomplete Transitional Justice Ecology in the Philippines

Destrooper

2023

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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“…This review surveys the philosophical underpinnings, conceptual frames, and methodological choices informing the scholarship on truth commission impact to examine whether, how, how much, and why truth commissions influence policy, court decisions, and social norms. Obviously, specifics of the commission under study drive much of the variation in findings, as do definitional disagreements-a survey of the literature finds anywhere between 45 and more than 100 truth commissions (Sarkin 2018). 1 Yet, even scholars studying the same commission using somewhat similar metrics of success may arrive at widely divergent conclusions.…”

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“…This review maintains an intentionally broad definition of truth commissions as panels created under an official mandate to investigate past human rights violations to include as many scholarly works as possible. For definitional debates, seeBakiner (2015),Hayner (2010),Sarkin (2018), and Wiebelhaus-Brahm (2010).…”

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Truth Commission Impact on Policy, Courts, and Society

Bakiner

2021

Annu. Rev. Law. Soc. Sci.

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This review surveys the philosophical underpinnings, conceptual frames, and methodological choices informing the scholarship on truth commission impact to examine whether, how, how much, and why truth commissions influence policy, court decisions, and social norms. It focuses on three areas: ( a) truth commission impact as the product of complex interactions between politicians, civil society activists, and truth commissions; ( b) conceptual and methodological debates and disagreements in studies of impact; and ( c) normative visions guiding expectations and assessments. The findings of empirical scholarship range from partial confirmation of bold and at times vague expectations to damning accounts of commissions’ failure to deliver. In addition to conceptual and methodological choices, scholars’ normative assumptions and expectations also explain divergent accounts of truth commission impact. Three sets of normative frameworks set the expectations in particular: building liberal democratic institutions; transforming socioeconomic, gendered, and racialized hierarchies; and reflecting local values, norms, and power dynamics.

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Socio-environmental Harms in Chile Under the Restorative Justice Lens: The Role of the State

Bolívar

Guerra

Martínez

2022

The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Restorative Justice

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Redesigning the Definition a Truth Commission, but Also Designing a Forward-Looking Non-Prescriptive Definition to Make Them Potentially More Successful

Cited by 7 publications

References 36 publications

Understanding the Unforeseen Consequences of an Incomplete Transitional Justice Ecology in the Philippines

Understanding the Unforeseen Consequences of an Incomplete Transitional Justice Ecology in the Philippines

Truth Commission Impact on Policy, Courts, and Society

Socio-environmental Harms in Chile Under the Restorative Justice Lens: The Role of the State

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